A new study suggests that animal characters in books can boost young children’s psychological development

Promising link between nut consumption and a reduced risk of dementia

Chinese Scientists Report 'Promising Results' From Novel Alzheimer's Surgery

In a First, Scientists Found Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation

Asthma linked to memory issues in children - Memory deficits could have longer-term consequences and increase risk of conditions such as dementia

Study on mice shows for the first time that the locus coeruleus, a brainstem region, is involved in the organization of sleep: it controls exactly when the switch from NREM to REM sleep can take place…

Time alone heightens ‘threat alert’ in teenagers – even when connecting on social media

Nasal spray drug counteracts cognitive decline/ brain damage of Alzheimer's disease in mice, by inhibiting brain enzyme S-acyltransferase

Children with asthma may have more memory difficulties

Ketamine changes the way our brains process touch, especially the difference between touch from ourselves versus someone else, and may blur the boundaries of self-perception

New research shows sleeping less than seven hours was found to reduce the odds of successful aging

Researchers have discovered how to diagnose a severe form of depression known as ‘melancholia’ by analysing the facial expressions and brain activity

Brain-on-a-chip tech powers neuroscience research – Vanderbilt University scientist engineers biomimetic model to tackle glioblastoma

Does Increased Energy Production in the Brain Influence Suicidal Behavior

Getting clocked - Disrupting circadian rhythms negatively affects communication between brain regions and information processing, study in mice shows

Diffusion imaging studies found alterations in brain anatomical connections such as the fronto-parietal connection known as superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) in adults with ADHD

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and may respond to stress in their daily lives with greater upticks in suicidal thoughts.

Study finds stimulant exposure, for a two-year period under real-world conditions in ADHD children modulated striatal-cortical functional networks broadly, had a normalizing effect on a subset of networks, and was associated with potential therapeutic effects involving visual attentional control

Binge drinking as a young adult may cause permanent brain damage decades on by fundamentally changing how the brain's neurons communicate, suggests a new study in mice, potentially raising the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life.

Scientists discover atypical brain connectivity in those with alcohol use disorder

'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet

Cannabis disrupts brain activity in young adults prone to psychosis

Driving Under the Cognitive Influence of COVID-19: Exploring the Impact of Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Road Safety

Iron-lowering drug could accelerate brain function decline for people with Alzheimer's

Talking to oneself mentally in a dialogic back and forth improves machine-learning based classification of brain signals evoked via imagined speech

Queensland Brain Institute researchers have shown how inhibitory synapses adjust after learning, expanding our knowledge of neuronal plasticity, connectivity and refinement.

When listening to sounds without being told to visualise anything, Aphantasics show activity in visual areas of the brain but not an area associated with subjective experiences - Visualisers show activity in both

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

Scientists have found during exercise muscles release a soup of biochemical signals called myokines, which help the neurons to grow four times farther compared to neurons that were not exposed to myokines

92% of TikTok videos about ADHD testing were misleading, and the truthful ones had the least engagement., study shows.

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